Ignored by audiences and critics until it's 1999 American re-release, writer/director Leos Carax's lavishly downbeat romance stars Juliette Binoche as Michèle, a would-be painter suffering from a disease slowly robbing her of her eyesight. Making her way to Paris' fabled Pont-Neuf Bridge, she falls in with alcoholic vagrant Alex (Denis Lavant), and the two begin a doomed love affair. With Daniel Buain, Klaus-Michael Grüber. 127 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: French; Subtitles: English; video essay; theatrical trailer. In French with English subtitles.
Ignored by audiences and critics until it's 1999 American re-release, writer/director Leos Carax's lavishly downbeat romance stars Juliette Binoche as Michèle, a would-be painter suffering from a disease slowly robbing her of her eyesight. Making her way to Paris' fabled Pont-Neuf Bridge, she falls in with alcoholic vagrant Alex (Denis Lavant), and the two begin a doomed love affair. With Daniel Buain, Klaus-Michael Grüber. 127 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: French; Subtitles: English; video essay; theatrical trailer. In French with English subtitles.
Ignored by audiences and critics until it's 1999 American re-release, writer/director Leos Carax's lavishly downbeat romance stars Juliette Binoche as Michèle, a would-be painter suffering from a disease slowly robbing her of her eyesight. Making her way to Paris' fabled Pont-Neuf Bridge, she falls in with alcoholic vagrant Alex (Denis Lavant), and the two begin a doomed love affair. With Daniel Buain, Klaus-Michael Grüber. 127 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: French; Subtitles: English; video essay; theatrical trailer. In French with English subtitles.
